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Counties.	Registered.			Voted.
	Men.	Women.	Total.	Men.	Women.	Total.
Salt Lake	14,083	13,328	27,411	13,102	12,802	25,904
Utah	5,921	5,922	11,843	5,649	5,650	11,299
Cache	3,112	3,210	6,322	2,946	3,085	6,031
Box Elder	1,759	1,548	3,307	1,677	1,466	3,143
Davis	1,175	1,327	2,502	1,133	1,277	2,410
Carbon	986	511	1,497	937	477	1,414
Uintah	851	683	1,534	796	622	1,418
Iron	743	672	1,415	708	646	1,354
Washington	690	752	1,442	690	752	1,442
Piute	409	264	673	399	246	645
Morgan	408	387	795	398	378	775
Rich	404	289	693	398	286	684
Wayne	342	302	644	318	309	627
Grand	285	135	420	263	129	392
Kane	280	341	621	219	285	504
San Juan	123	61	184	106	56	162
	31,571	29,732	61,313	29,738	28,486	58,198

Total registration of men	31,571
"vote""	29,738
Registered but not voting	1,833
Total registration of women	29,732
"vote""	28,486
Registered but not voting	1,246

It will be seen that in five counties the registration and vote of women was larger than that of men, and in the State a considerably larger proportion of women than of men who registered voted. Women cast nearly 50 per cent. of the entire vote and yet . the U. S. Census of this year showed that males comprised over 51 per cent. of the population.

All of the testimony which is given in the chapters on Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho might be duplicated for Utah. From Mormon and Gentile alike, from the press, from the highest officials, from all who represent the best interests of the State, it is unanimously in favor of suffrage for women. The evidence proves beyond dispute that they use it judiciously and conscientiously, that it has tended to the benefit of themselves and their homes, and that political conditions have been distinctly improved.*

Office Holding: Governor Heber M. Wells at once carried into effect the spirit of the constitution, adopted in 1895, by ap-

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1. See Appendix—Testimony from Woman Suffrage States.